Notifiable Diseases in Victoria
Compiled from:
Order declaring diseases and exotic diseases, 10 September 2015
Livestock Disease Control Act 1994
Livestock Disease Control Regulations 2006 (especially Schedule 2)
Disease Category/Classification:
Part*:
Disease type:
Species:
Page No:
Part A
Endemic
Mammals & Birds
2
Part A
Exotic
Mammals & Birds
2
Part B
Endemic/Exotic
Bees
3
Part C
Endemic/Exotic
Fish, Molluscs and
Amphibians
3, 4
* Relates to the Order declaring diseases and exotic diseases
How to notify the Department
For immediate notification phone the Disease Watch Hotline - 1800 675 888 (24 hours a day, every day of the year).
For diseases that must be reported within 12 hours either phone the Disease Watch Hotline - 1800 675 888,
or notify the
Chief Veterinary Officer
Department of Economic Development, Jobs, Transport and Resources
FAX: (03) 9217 4322
Email: CVO.victoria@ecodev.vic.gov.au
Non-emergency animal diseases that must be reported within 7 days can be notified by completing the hard copy form
(available at www.vic.gov.au/notifiable-disease) and then posting, emailing or faxing to the
Chief Veterinary Officer,
Department of Economic Development, Jobs, Transport and Resources
475 Mickleham Road, Attwood, Victoria, 3049
FAX: (03) 9217 4322
Email: CVO.victoria@ecodev.vic.gov.au
Current at 10 September 2015
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Notifiable Diseases in Victoria
Part A – Diseases of mammals and birds - (Notify immediately)
Anthrax
Part A - Diseases of mammals and birds - (Notify within 12 hours or 7 days)
Anaplasmosis
Avian (Pigeon) Paramyxovirus Type 1
Babesiosis
Bovine genital campylobacteriosis
Bovine malignant catarrh
Bovine malignant tumour of the eye
larger than 2cm
Buffalo fly
Caprine arthritis encephalitis
Cattle tick
Cysticercosis bovis (Taenia saginata)
Enzootic bovine leukosis
Equine herpes-virus 1 (abortigenic
and neurological strains)
Equine infectious anaemia
Equine viral arteritis
Infectious bovine rhinotracheitis
Infectious laryngotracheitis
Lead Poisoning (in food production
animals)
Leptospirosis
Listeriosis
Mucosal disease
Ovine brucellosis
Ovine footrot
Ovine ked
Ovine lice
Paratuberculosis (Johne's disease)
Psittacosis
Pullorum disease (Salmonella
pullorum)
Salmonellosis
Strangles
Swine brucellosis (B. suis)
Trichomoniasis
Tuberculosis (other than Mycobacterium
bovis)
Verocytotoxigenic E. coli
Part A - Exotic diseases of mammals and birds - (Notify immediately)
African horse sickness
African swine fever
Aujeszky's disease
Australian lyssaviruses including bat
lyssavirus
Avian influenza (highly pathogenic)
Avian influenza (low pathogenic virus
subtypes)
Bluetongue
Borna disease
Bovine Viral Diarrhoea Virus Type 2
Brucella canis
Brucellosis – bovine (B. abortus)
Brucellosis – caprine and ovine (B.
melitensis)
Camel pox
Chagas disease (T. cruzi)
Classical swine fever
Contagious agalactia
Contagious bovine pleuropneumonia
Contagious caprine pleuropneumonia
Contagious equine metritis
Crimean Congo haemorrhagic fever
Cysticercus cellulosae (Taenia solium)
Devil facial tumour disease
Dourine
Duck virus enteritis (duck plague)
Duck virus hepatitis
East coast fever (Theileria parva) and
Mediterranean Theileriosis (Theileria
annulata)
Elaphostrongylosis
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Encephalitides (tick-borne)
Enzootic abortion of ewes
Epizootic haemorrhagic disease (clinical
disease)
Epizootic lymphangitis
Equine encephalomyelitis (eastern,
western and Venezuelan)
Equine encephalosis
Equine influenza
Equine piroplasmosis (Babesia caballi
and Theileria equi)
Fasciola gigantica
Foot and mouth disease
Fowl typhoid (S. gallinarum)
Getah virus
Goat pox
Glanders
Haemorrhagic septicaemia
Heartwater
Hendra virus
Infectious bursal disease (hypervirulent
and exotic antigenic variant forms)
Japanese encephalitis
Jembrana disease
Leishmaniosis of any species
Louping ill
Lumpy skin disease
Maedi-visna
Malignant catarrhal fever (wildebeest
associated)
Menangle virus infection (porcine
paramyxovirus)
Nairobi sheep disease
Newcastle disease (virulent)
Nipah virus
Peste des petits ruminants
Porcine myocarditis (Bungowannah
virus)
Porcine reproductive and respiratory
syndrome
Post-weaning multisystemic wasting
syndrome
Potomac fever
Pulmonary adenomatosis (Jaagsiekte)
Rabies
Rift Valley fever
Rinderpest
Salmonella enteritidis infection in poultry
Salmonellosis (S. abortus-equi)
Salmonellosis (S. abortus-ovis)
Screw worm fly - New World
(Cochliomyia homnivorax)
Screw worm fly – Old World
(Chrysomya bezziana)
Sheep pox
Sheep scab
Spongiform encephalopathies
Surra (Trypanosoma evansi)
Swine influenza
Swine vesicular disease
Notifiable Diseases in Victoria
Part A - Exotic diseases of mammals and birds - (Notify immediately) Continued…
Teschen disease (Porcine enterovirus
encephalomyelitis)
Transmissible gastroenteritis
Transmissible spongiform
encephalopathies (bovine spongiform
encephalopathy, chronic wasting
disease of deer, feline spongiform
encephalopathy, scrapie)
Trichinellosis
Trypanosomiasis (tsetse fly associated)
Tuberculosis (Mycobacterium bovis)
Tularaemia
Turkey rhinotracheitis (avian
metapneumovirus)
Vesicular exanthema
Vesicular stomatitis
Warble fly myiasis
Wesselsbron disease
West Nile virus clinical infection
Part B – Diseases of Bees - (Notify within 12 hours or 7 days)
American foul brood disease
Braula fly (Braula coeca)
(Paenibacillus larvae)
Chalk brood disease
European foul brood (Melisococus
plutonius)
Nosema (Nosema api and Nosema
ceranae)
Small hive beetle (Aethina tumida)
Part B - Exotic diseases of bees (Notify immediately)
Africanised bees
Tropilaelaps mite (Tropilaelaps claerae)
Varroosis (Varroa destructor)
Varroosis (Varroa jacobsoni)
Tracheal mite (Acarapis woodi)
Part C - Diseases of fish, molluscs and amphibians - (Notify within 7 days)
Diseases of Fin Fish
Aeromonas salmonicida - atypical
strains
Epizootic haematopoietic necrosis –
EHN virus
Infection with Aphanomyces invadans
(epizootic ulcerative syndrome)
Diseases of Molluscs
Bonamiosis (Bonamia species)
Diseases of Amphibians
Chytridiomycosis – Batrachochytrium
dendrobatidis
Infection with Ranavirus
Part C – Exotic diseases of fish, molluscs and crustacea - (Notify immediately)
Exotic diseases of fin fish
Bacterial kidney disease
(Renibacterium salmoninarum)
Channel catfish virus disease
Edwardsiella ictaluria
Enteric Redmouth disease (Yersinia
ruckeri -Hagerman strain)
Enteric septicaemia of catfish
(Edwardsiella ictaluri)
European catfish virus / European
sheatfish virus
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Furunculosis (Aeromonas salmonicida
subsp. salmonicida)
Grouper iridoviral disease
Gyrodactylosis (Gyrodactylus salaris)
Koi herpesvirus disease
Piscirickettsiosis (Piscirickettsia
salmonis)
Infection with salmonid alphavirus
Infectious haematopoietic necrosis
Infectious pancreatic necrosis
Red sea bream iridoviral disease
Spring viraemia of carp
Infection with HPR-deleted or HPR0
infectious salmon anaemia virus
Infectious spleen and kidney necrosis
virus-like (ISKNV-like) viruses
Viral encephalopathy and retinopathy
Viral haemorrhagic septicaemia
Whirling disease (Myxobolus cerebralis)
Notifiable Diseases in Victoria
Part C – Exotic diseases of fish, molluscs and crustacea - (Notify immediately) Continued…
Exotic diseases of molluscs
Abalone viral mortality
Abalone viral ganglioneuritis
Bonamiosis (Bonamia ostreae, Bonamia exitiosus)
Iridoviroses
Marteilioides chungmuesis
Marteiliosis (Marteilia refringens, Marteilia sydneyi)
Mikrocytosis (Mikrocytos mackini)
Ostreid herpesvirus-1 µ variant (OsHV-1 µvar)
Perkinsosis (Perkinsus marinus, Perkinsus olseni)
Withering syndrome of abalones (Xenohaliotis
californiensis)
Exotic diseases of crustacea
Acute hepatopancreatic necrosis disease (AHPND)
Crayfish plague (Aphanomyces astaci)
Gill-associated virus
Infection with Candidatus Hepatobacter penaei
Infection with yellow head disease
Infectious hypodermal and haematopoietic
necrosis
Infectious myonecrosis
Monodon slow growth syndrome
Taura syndrome
White spot disease
White tail disease
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